The Ethics of Punishment
Gertrude Ezorsky
I. Concepts of Punishment
Of Punishments and Rewards
Thomas Hobbes
On Punishment
A. M. Quinton
Is Punishment Retributive?
Kurt Baier
The Expressive Function of Punishment
Joel Feinberg
II. The Justification of Punishment
1. Teleological Theories
Punishment as Cure
Plato
Hegel's Theory of Punishment
J. E. McTaggart
Utility and Punishment
Jeremy Bentham
Punishment and the Individual
H. Rashdall
A Utilitarian Reply to Dr. McCloskey
T. L. S. Sprigge
Rule Utilitarianism (I)
John Austin
Rule Utilitarianism (II)
John Rawls
Rule Utilitarianism (III)
Richard Brandt
2. Retributivism
Justice and Punishment
Immanuel Kant
Punishment as a Right
G. W. F. Hegel
The Vulgar Notion of Responsibility
F. H. Bradley
An Organic Unity
G. E. Moore
Persons and Punishment
Herbert Morris
A Non-Utilitarian Approach to Punishment
H. J. McCloskey
3. Teleological Retributivism
Whether Vengeance is Lawful
St. Thomas Aquinas
The Right to Punish
K. G. Armstrong
On "Retributivism"
A.C. Ewing
Raphael Justice
D. Daiches
Punishment
W. D. Ross
Principles of Punishment
H. L. A. Hart
Punishment
J. D. Mabbott
III. Strict Liability
Those Who Have Sinned Involuntarily
St. Thomas Aquinas
Inefficacious Punishment
Jeremy Bentham
The Rationale of Excuses
H. L. A. Hart
Strict Liability and the Criminal Law
R. Wasserstrom
The Function of the Courts
Lady B. Wooton
Changing Conceptions of Responsibility
H. L. A. Hart
IV. The Death Penalty
The Deterrent Value of Capital Punishment
Royal Commission on Capital Punishment Report 1949-53
The Hon. Mr. Gilpin
Speech Against Capital Punishment 1868
Speech in Favor of Capital Punishment 1868
John Stuart Mill
V. Alternatives to Punishment
Imprisonment
Bernard Shaw
Erewhon and Erewhon Revisited
Samuel Butler
The Paradox of Prison Reform
R. Martinson
Why Punish the Guilty?
R. Wasserstrom
Does Punishment Deter Crime
J. Andenaes
The Holdup Man
Clarence Darrow
Bibliography